Except that he's finally thriving right now in a lead role. If they've stuck with Bargs this long it makes absolutely no sense to move him now. Swapping Calderon for Fisher makes exactly zero sense as well. Joh Hollinger, trolling?

i like hollinger in that he looks at the statistical output from an objective perspective. but i reaaally find him lacking when it comes to REAL basketball & all it's machinations, specifically with things like trade scenarios. this is so silly, it's absurd. and that's coming from me, a bargs hater.

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Ya, that's not happening. Why would we want/need Pau (who is very soft and coming to mid/end of his career) when we have Jonas coming in next year?

Fisher is a huge downgrade to Calderon.

because it's a move that would help LA, and that's all that matters?

pau is only 31, so yeah, he's in the middle of his career, and has likely peaked, but he's not done. he just has no value on the raptors. and certainly including jose makes no sense...wouldn't any fake trade rumour be joining the two spaniards, not seeing them traded for each other?

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Ain't it funny that after 6 games people are scoffing at swapping the PF-PG combo from an NBA champion for Bargnani-Calderon. Maybe those two don't suck quite so much after all. Bargnani has always had talent, and he has never been a jerk. So it shouldn't be a real surprise that a good coach and the right role would allow him to thrive. Remember, the last couple of years he was asked to play the C position, which plays against his strengths. It's early, but it looks like Casey has figured out who Bargnani is as a player, and how to use him. As for Calderon, he has deficiencies on defence but over the past 3 years his Asst/TO ratio has been well above 4. Dude runs the offence, scores efficiently (0.574 career TS%, in Paul/Kidd/Nash territory) and doesn't squander possessions. An efficient offence that doesn't turn the ball over is important for defensive performance. He would absolutely kill it with the Lakers. Now, if only he could stay healthy...

Hollinger's kind of a tool. Some of the metrics he uses are fun to talk about, and some about individual players especially are decent ways to assess things like impact or value(they can also be useless to statistically unproductive role players). He's just a stats freak with no feel for the game. If you took him to watch a game, he couldn't give you feedback until he looks at numbers.

There's no way any GM in the league makes that kind of deal. Everyone is going to be calling Toronto right now after this start to see if they can lowball BC for Bargnani. LA probably realizes they're in trouble and they f*&#^D themselves with the media coverage of the failed Paul trade, and then by having to trade Odom away. Man, what a mess in LA. And you've got all that talent on the Clippers...how long before Sterling and the team's historic dysfunction screw that up?

But not now! I hate it how some people in the media really devalues the Raptor players when it comes to trades. I can't wait until Hollinger comes up with trading Demar for Jason Richardson and will be saying: "Orlando is considering it"